Noun: complementation ,kóm-plu-mun'tey-shun
- The way in which a verb, adjective, or noun is completed by another word or phrase to form a meaningful constructio
"In 'want to go', the infinitive provides complementation for the verb 'want'"
- (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
"In English, [h] and [ŋ] are in complementation, never occurring in the same position";
- complementary distribution
Derived forms: complementations
Type of: dispersion, distribution, grammatical relation
Encyclopedia: Complementation